While at Watson’s, I was busy choosing some items and was almost done when a saleslady told me that if my purchases would reach Php700 or more, I would get a free hand soap. She then showed me the bath soap, a liquid soap in a pump container. Really enticing offer huh. I laughingly told her that my purchases can’t possibly reach Php700. She took a calculator and computed the total and to my surprise they amounted to Php700 indeed.

So I was happy that I will have a free item as a bonus for shopping at SM. She let me choose which soap variant and suggested the purple one. Then guess what, before handing it over to me, she said that I should have to buy one of the items in their display to qualify for the free item – a Sunsilk shampoo, a Head and Shoulders shampoo, etc.

Aha! First she enticed me about the free bath soap but there was one condition that she didn’t tell me, and that was having to purchase some products before I can get the free item. “Great offer” indeed. Good thing Dad added a toothbrush set to my cart which was one of the qualifying products.

Anyway, at the cashier, I was also given two Yellow Cab discount coupons. Each coupon entitles the holder to Php20 off for food bill worth Php300. And since my shopping amounted to more than Php1000, I was also entitled to a free scented fan.